Marker is deprecated use AdvancedMarkerElement instead

[svondervoort]

I've been working on some projects including Google Maps Javascript API (not this plugin) and noticed they are moving from Marker to AdvancedMarkerElement.

This might be of importance for this plugin in the long term, but they are currently not removing support for the old Marker.

https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/advanced-markers/migration

[lindseydiloreto]

Hi @svondervoort, thanks for the heads up! Fortunately, we were already aware for the transition from Markers to Advanced Markers. It is on our road map to add functionality for Advanced Markers, and will likely favor that approach once it's built.

As you mentioned, the deprecated Markers are not being removed, so there is no harm in continuing to use them for now.

Thanks again! We'll keep this thread open until support for Advanced Markers has been added.

[pmkhoa]

Hi, is there any update from this yet?

[lindseydiloreto]

Fair question. We haven't dove into it yet, so I'm uncertain as to what the ripple effects will be. It will primarily involve two significant tasks...

1. Create a new method: map.advancedMarkers(locations, options)
2. Change the default behavior of googleMaps.map(locations, options) to create Advanced Markers instead of the original Markers.

This second part would probably be considered a breaking change, which means we probably wouldn't release that change until the next major version (Google Maps plugin v6).

The first part may or may not be paired with the second part. It's possible that we'll work on advancedMarkers before the next major release, but it's also possible that it will be delayed until both features can be released at the same time.

For planning purposes, we anticipate the next major plugin version (v6) will coincide with the next major version of Craft (v6), likely due around the end of the year.

[alexagui]

One of our client site maps is down. We're troubleshooting but wanted to know if anyone else having issues?

[lindseydiloreto]

@alexagui This probably isn't the best place to report an unrelated issue. Feel free to DM me (@lindseydiloreto) on Discord and I can help you figure out what's wrong.

[alexagui]

Following up that it wasn't the custom markers causing our map issue.